Alexxa,Please Don't Leave Me Alone...
Ben's head snapped up, and his eyes opened. His weak limbs ached from the fetal position he had drawn himself into. He had heard his name called but as he glanced around the area of the medical center that he was in, he couldn't see a solitary soul.
Who had called his name? He had thought for a moment that it had been his father calling out to him, but his anguished mind pushed the thought aside. His father and mother were dead and they couldn't talk to him, or not in the same way that they used to.
He turned his head in the direction where Alexxa's bed was sister's eyes were still closed, her face flushed as she fought the effects of the virus as it attacked her body. Had Alexxa called his name in the Force?
Ben closed his eyes again and sent himself inward, searching for his connection with his sister and found it...it was strained/blocked as if in her unconscious state Alexxa was doing what came naturally to her...locking her emotions up until she could better deal with them.
*Alexxa, I am here...please wake up. Please don't leave me all alone.*
Ben choked on the sob that sprung into his chest. He couldn't lose her too. He understood that he would never truly be alone as long as any of his cousins and their spouses and children were alive, but he needed Alexxa. He needed his sister to stay with him. He just
couldn't lose all of his immediate family...it would tear a hole in his heart so wide that he would never be able to repair it.